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What are some cool behind-the-scenes facts about games you love? Apparently, Fallout 2's entire source code was at one point lost/deleted. But, a Fallout gamedev, legendary Rebecca Heineman, had sneakily saved personal backups of the source code over the years, leading to the code being saved
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What are some cool behind-the-scenes facts about games you love? Apparently, Fallout 2’s entire source code was at one point lost/deleted. But, a Fallout gamedev, legendary Rebecca Heineman, had sneakily saved personal backups of the source code over the years, leading to the code being saved

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I just think it's such a cool story! Today it's normal to always version control and backup every piece of code you write, but there was a time when it wasn't the case I guess.

It feels crazy to me that we almost lost the code of one of the largest game franchises in the world (Fallout). Here's an article about it.

Made me curious what other cool stories about beloved games out there? What's your favorite behind-the-scenes trivia about games you like, if you know any?